GamerGod88 (real name Brendan) is a character created and played by Jack Douglass from Jacksfilms, who grew to be the star of his own series on the Jacksfilms channel. An Affectionate Parody of Let's Players, GamerGod88 started out as a reappearing character in some Jacksfilms sketches. The videos he featured in (dubbed "Not-Gaming Videos", by Jack) fake Let's Plays. In April 2014, Jack announced that he had plans to make GamerGod88 the star of his own show.

GamerGod88 received split opinions from Jacksfilms fanbase when it first launched. The original plan was to release two videos a day, but it was quickly turned down to one, and he later decided to instead release multiple GamerGod88 videos as one bigger video every so often instead of making it a daily project. The reception that the show got was so poor that it not only surprised Jack but he ended up cancelling the show after not even a week. However, the show was Uncancelled in August of that year, and set to release a new video each Saturday, but quickly fell out of hand.

As of April 1, 2015, GamerGod88 has a Twitch account here which he uses for weekly (in-character) livestreams. The first of these livestreams, which was not archived on the channel, can be viewed here.

Corpsing: While Jack doesn't do this in the regular episodes, he finds it difficult to stay in-character for the whole hour-or-so-long livestreams, and even comments on it in the first stream (where his corpsing was caused by the hilarity of the flash games the chat was recommending he played):

Jack, as GamerGod88: Y'know, it's really hard to stay in character when you keep laughing at all this funny shit.

Excited Show Title!: No exclamation points, but all of the video titles are written completely in capitals.

Fake Difficulty: All of the questions in Undress the Girl were pretty much unanswerable, and he was unable to get even one correct.

Funny Background Event: In Five Hunks at Freddy's, the name of the "Pizza Cam" changes repeatedly, to "Proud of You", "Skiball Cam", "Hell Yes", "B-Ball Cam", "Best day everrrrr-" and "Impossible is nothing".

Good Bad Bugs: invokedTony Hunk's Bro Skater turns out to be full of these.

Game-Breaking Bug: ...Which leads to the video ending with the game breaking completely, with Tony Hunk glitching out and hovering above the words "PROUD OF YOU".

Recycled Premise/Recycled IN SPACE!: Averted. A main concern about the show was that all the episodes would be too repetitive and similar to each other, but when the show started, Jack confirmed that each episode will have its own unique premise and joke(s).

Simpleton Voice: Excluding the "Let's Not Play" videos, where GamerGod88 spoke in a normal voice, Jack gives him one of two voices: either moderately slurred (like he's had one too many drinks), or slovenly and quasi-seductive.

Sore Loser: GamerGod88 rarely reacts well to losing in a game. In the first livestream, he played Smash Bros on his DS without even looking at the screen (as it was angled towards his computer's webcam), and was shocked to discover he placed last.

GamerGod88: That's some bullshit, clearly I was in... fourth place? ...Alright, well my game's broken, that's fine. Um, I'll be writing to Nintendo about that, they will be hearing from my lawyer, because that's just... disrespectful.

Uncancelled: As of "Jackask #24". The daily show surprised Jack with its poor reception, and was cancelled before a single week of content had been released. Jack always planned to bring the show back, perhaps as bundles packaged as a regular "PMS" episode, but he finally settled on an occasional video series with regular livestreams on Twitch.

You Bastard: In Undress the Girl, GamerGod88 fails to answer any of the questions, and since the girl puts on another article of clothing for every wrong question, by the end she ends up looking like she's ready for an expedition in the mountains. And not only that, but she dies of heat stroke.

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